I couldn't figure out where to put this so here is as good as anywhere I suppose.
Last Friday and Saturday I volunteered to serve as a judge for the Central Virginia Regional Science Fair for grades 9-12. One of the behavioral sciences projects caught my eye but since I wasn't judging that category, I made a mental note to check it out later but ended up forgetting to do so. The project was on reading comprehension of printed versus electronic media. There were two groups of students. Group one was given a short story printed on paper to read and group two was to read the same story on a computer screen. Both groups were then given the same test to measure how much they remembered.
Group one scored 81.something percent and group two scored a 58.something percent.
Like I said, I did not get a chance to go back and review the project and ask the student questions but the judges that did mentioned that they were impressed with the project.
Just another data point to consider when it comes to e-readers.
Last Friday and Saturday I volunteered to serve as a judge for the Central Virginia Regional Science Fair for grades 9-12. One of the behavioral sciences projects caught my eye but since I wasn't judging that category, I made a mental note to check it out later but ended up forgetting to do so. The project was on reading comprehension of printed versus electronic media. There were two groups of students. Group one was given a short story printed on paper to read and group two was to read the same story on a computer screen. Both groups were then given the same test to measure how much they remembered.
Group one scored 81.something percent and group two scored a 58.something percent.
Like I said, I did not get a chance to go back and review the project and ask the student questions but the judges that did mentioned that they were impressed with the project.
Just another data point to consider when it comes to e-readers.
) I feel its also quite tempted to share a good book with other people
